So come to find out that DS5 asks Dr S "when are you going to test [DS2]?"
And then in the ride back in the car, DS5 is "questioning" DS2 as if he's asking him questions from the SBV. Ha.
It's fine. I know that we're going to get confirmation that DS5 is gifted. It's just a matter of where on the spectrum he is. And I couldn't really hazard a guess. I don't think he's going to score exceptionally well on the SBV, but he'll probably do very well on the achievement test. The new thing is that the boy just started writing his mom notes...
While most days he does not take naps, he still goes up to his room in the afternoons between 1 and 3ish while DS2 naps. These days he'll maybe rest for 15 minutes and then he'll read to himself for the rest of the time. Since we put a small table in there for him to "work" on, he'll do math worksheets for fun. Lately he's started to write notes like "Mom at 3:30 please get me Love [NAME] xxoo". His handwriting is terrible, but he generally writes without misspelling (or minor misspellings). From watching him develop--going from "kid writing" style writing to correct spelling--seems to me like he just went through another development period. We've noticed this with both boys. They seem to go through real bursts of development and then level off for a while.
So a little bit off on a tangent. Did your early readers start writing early too? Handwriting really seems to be the bottleneck.
JB
